For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.

Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about - you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.

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.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.