He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.

Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have within his reach, in himself and others, objects adequate to infinite endeavor.

Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans.

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.

In politics nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.