It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son's age.

The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.

What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

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?

Man has will, but woman has her way.