Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!

...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.