For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.