A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

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.

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

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization-is natural to a particular phase of human development. It is not essential, but incidental. As amongst the Bushmen we find a state antecedent to government, so may there be one in which it shall have become extinct.

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

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.