Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.
Property is organized robbery.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it; and impossible bats and owls must be banished with them.
One touch of Darwin makes the whole world kin.
