The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.