The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.

Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

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.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.