Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.

Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.