One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the effort of every man to get the most he can for his services, and that of society, disguised under the name of capital, to get his services for the least possible return.

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.

We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

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

The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot.

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