And I will add this point of merely personal experience of humanity: when men have a real explanation they explain it, eagerly and copiously and in common speech, as Huxley freely gave it when he thought he had it. When they have no explanation to offer, they give short dignified replies, disdainful of the ignorance of the multitude.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.

Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.