We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

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

The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles.

This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.