Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.

The ethical system of these men of the New Republic, the ethical system which will dominate the world state, will be shaped primarily to favour the procreation of what is fine and efficient and beautiful in humanity — beautiful and strong bodies, clear and powerful minds, and a growing body of knowledge — and to check the procreation of base and servile types, of fear-driven and cowardly souls, of all that is mean and ugly and bestial in the souls, bodies, or habits of men.

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

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.

I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.

Strength is the outcome of need.

Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.