We too often forget that not only is there "a soul of goodness in things evil," but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.

The supporters of the Development Hypothesis... can show that any existing species-animal or vegetable-when placed under conditions different from its previous ones, immediately begins to undergo certain changes fitting it for the new conditions. They can show that in successive generations these changes continue; until, ultimately, the new conditions become the natural ones. They can show that in cultivated plants, in domesticated animals, and in the several races of men, such alterations have taken place. They can show that the degrees of difference so produced are often, as in dogs, greater than those on which distinctions of species are in other cases founded.

Unlike private enterprise which quickly modifies its actions to meet emergencies - unlike the shopkeeper who promptly finds the wherewith to satisfy a sudden demand - unlike the railway company which doubles its trains to carry a special influx of passengers; the law-made instrumentality lumbers on under all varieties of circumstances at its habitual rate. By its very nature it is fitted only for average requirements, and inevitably fails under unusual requirements.

The tyranny of Mrs. Grundy is worse than any other tyranny we suffer under.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts!

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

It cannot but happen that those individuals whose functions are most out of equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces, will be those to die; and that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces. But this survival of the fittest, implies multiplication of the fittest. Out of the fittest thus multiplied, there will, as before, be an overthrowing of the moving equilibrium wherever it presents the least opposing force to the new incident force.

There can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural aptitude. A clear head, a quick imagination, and a sensitive ear, will go far towards making all rhetorical precepts needless.

The universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered.

Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.

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

Throughout all organic nature there is at work a modifying influence of the kind... as the cause, these specific differences: an influence which, though slow in its action, does, in time, if the circumstances demand it, produce marked changes-an influence, which to all appearance, would produce in the millions of years, and under the great varieties of condition which geological records imply, any amount of change.

Strong as it looks at the outset, State-agency perpetually disappoints every one. Puny as are its first stages, private efforts daily achieve results that astound the world.

In Germany, the judicial system has been the whore of the German princes for centuries.

People like us are unhappy in this world and in the next, I guess if we made it to heaven, we'd have to help make it thunder.

Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.

The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.

You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.

Dying people often become childish.

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.

That is a long word: forever!

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.

Germany is now a field of cadavers, soon she will be a paradise.

Murder begins where self-defense ends.

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.

How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.

The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare of all and which must originate from the welfare of all.

We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.

They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.

We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.

Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly.

Death is the most blessed dream.

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.

The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.

Supreme power rests in the will of all or of the majority.

There is something beautiful about virtue, Captain. But I am just a poor guy.

The revolution must end and the republic must begin. In our constitution, right must take the place of duty, welfare that of virtue, and self-defense that of punishment. Everyone must be able to prevail and to live according to one's own nature.

Freedom and whores are the most cosmopolitan items under the sun. .

The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.