Too late I stayed,--forgive the crime!
Unheeded flew the hours;
How noiseless falls the foot of time
That only treads on flowers.
We too often forget that not only is there "a soul of goodness in things evil,"but very generally a soul of truth in things erroneous.
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.
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.
Survival of the fittest.
With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior.
Evil perpetually tends to disappear.
Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries or distinctions of race.
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature--a type nowhere at present existing.
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.
Reading is seeing by proxy.
Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.
The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life."
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage";.
Music must rank as the highest of the artsâmore than any other, it ministers to human welfare.
Science is organised knowledge.
The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.
MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way.
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.