The law is the survival of the fittest.... The law is not the survival of the 'better' or the 'stronger,' if we give to those words any thing like their ordinary meanings. It is the survival of those which are constitutionally fittest to thrive under the conditions in which they are placed; and very often that which, humanly speaking, is inferiority, causes the survival.

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.

Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.