Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
The law is the survival of the fittest. . . . The law is not the survival of the 'better' or the 'stronger,' if we give to those words any thing like their ordinary meanings. It is the survival of those which are constitutionally fittest to thrive under the conditions in which they are placed; and very often that which, humanly speaking, is inferiority, causes the survival.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.
The scale of marital breakdowns in the West since 1960 has no historical precedent that I know of, and seems unique,. . . There has been nothing like it for the last 2,000 years, and probably longer.
I'm willing to deal with the consequences and accept responsibility for my actions.
There is little doubt that, until 1846 when he helped to engineer the resignation of Robert Peel, Disraeli was driven by an ambition to make his mark rather than by any consistent political purpose, and that his attacks on Peel would have not have been so mounted had he been given in 1841 the office for which he had asked.
Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.