The more numerous public instrumentalities become, the more is there generated in citizens the notion that everything is to be done for them, and nothing by them. Every generation is made less familiar with the attainment of desired ends by individual actions or private agencies; until, eventually, governmental agencies come to be thought of as the only available agencies.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".

Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.

The law is the survival of the fittest.... The law is not the survival of the 'better' or the 'stronger,' if we give to those words any thing like their ordinary meanings. It is the survival of those which are constitutionally fittest to thrive under the conditions in which they are placed; and very often that which, humanly speaking, is inferiority, causes the survival.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.