Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

I emphasize the reply that the liberty which a citizen enjoys is to be measured, not by the nature of the governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the relative paucity of the restraints it imposes on him.

Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.

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!