Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.

The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.

Liberty is always unfinished business

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of categories, and they are already fictions, analogical fictions, or labels, which give us the same pleasure as children receive when they are told the "name" of a thing.