“Science is organized knowledge.”

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

Government is essentially immoral.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.

Find a positive lesson and positive reason for all of your personal relationships. Accentuate the blessings and knowledge gained from each.

The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.

Live in the knowledge that you are a gift to the world.

Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.

We live in a world where knowledge is developing at an ever-accelerating rate. Drink deeply from this ever-springing well of wisdom and human experience.