Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and paint it as hewill, remains clay, separated by artifice, and not by nature from the commonest brick or sun-dried clod.

Men can intoxicate themselves with ideas as effectually as with alcohol or with bang and produce, be dint of serious thinking, mental conditions hardly distinguishable from monomania.

Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair" will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within.

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything...

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.