Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.

Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.