So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.

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.

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.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.