Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions.

The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.

A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity.

Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers.

We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!

Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure -- had gone steadily on to a climax... And the harvest was what I saw.