Adapt or perish now as ever is nature’s inexorable imperative.
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.
The past is but the beginning of a beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.