Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

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

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.

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 my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.