“Happily in this community we all are bred and born to work; and this honorable mark, set on us all, should bind together the various portions of the community
“Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life
“Man's spiritual nature is no dream of theologians to vanish before the light of natural science. It is the grandest reality on earth
“Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism
“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act
“In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection
“The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes
“Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former