There are many religions, but there is only one morality.

The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.

Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.