Great Throughts Treasury

"Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any; two who truly love each other to be, not who shall command, but who shall yield."

"Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual."

"Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of God."

"Pleasures of the mind have this advantage - they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment."

"My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity. "

"Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all."