Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.

Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.