Certitude is not the test of certainty.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.

And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.

To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.