The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.

If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.

And yet, strange to say, now that this truth is recognized by most cultivated people — now that the beneficent working of the survival of the fittest has been so impressed on them that, much more than people in past times, they might be expected to hesitate before neutralizing its action — now more than ever before in the history of the world, are they doing all they can to further survival of the unfittest!

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.

The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process, is small compared with the cruelty of a God who condemns men to tortures which are eternal.

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