In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

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

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

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Education is preparation to live completely.

Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to the globe as a whole; yet most, if not all geologists, write as though it were so.

The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that by due skill an ill working humanity may be framed into well-working initiations. It is delusion. The defective natures of citizens will show themselves in bad acting of whatever social structure they are arranged into. There is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of laden instincts.