All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

First be a good animal.

Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

The true ship is the ship builder.

There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.