The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.

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

There is no nature at an instant.

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.

Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.

Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.

Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.