You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!