Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality.

The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.

Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.