If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?

The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats.

She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.

a king can only work with his best tools.

The miracle was that he had been allowed to do a miracle. And ever, says Mallory, Sir Lancelot wept, as he had been a child that had been beaten.

You think education is something to be done when all else fails?

Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a change, without an end?