I am against slavery simply because I dislike slaves.

The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.

To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong.

You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.

The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.

The longest sentence you can form with two words is: I do.

[Thomas Henry] Huxley, I believe, was the greatest Englishman of the Nineteenth Century—perhaps the greatest Englishman of all time. When one thinks of him, one thinks inevitably of such men as Goethe and Aristotle. For in him there was that rich, incomparable blend of intelligence and character, of colossal knowledge and high adventurousness, of instinctive honesty and indomitable courage which appears in mankind only once in a blue moon. There have been far greater scientists, even in England, but there has never been a scientist who was a greater man.