We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.

In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--"Scientists.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the factories of India, China, and South Italy, appeared as generous supporters of and subscribers to the sacred cause of individual liberty.

Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.