“Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power”

“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.”

“One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands”

“In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection”

“No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.”

“The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled”