Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.

Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

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