I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.

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

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

Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.

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.

Deduction, which takes us from the general proposition to facts again-teaches us, if I may so say, to anticipate from the ticket what is inside the bundle.

Action is the catalyst that creates accomplishments. It is the path that takes us from uncrafted hopes to realized dreams.