You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat would probably be killed, though it can fall safely from the eleventh story of a building, a man is broken, a horse splashes.

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail.

I will jump into the river to save two brothers or eight cousins.

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.

The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of the passions. These are the wreckers of outworn empires and civilisations, doubters, disintegrators, deicides.