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.
Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.