Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest basis of belief; that merit attaches to readiness to believe; that the doubting disposition is a bad one, and skepticism is a sin.

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.

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.

We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what apprears before them.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.