“Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.” — Herbert Spencer

The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.