Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.

Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.

Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So surely must the things we call evil and immorality disappear; so surely must man become perfect.

To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth