Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

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

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

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

You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.