If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

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

We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.