Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.

Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

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.