In autumn, don't go to jewellers to see gold; go to the parks!
Society exists for the benefit of its members - not the members for the benefit of society.
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.
Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.
The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.
I am wrong more often than i am writing and even then i am often wrong
Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.