It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society c… - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

With all humility, I think, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing, you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

Many things which we take for granted have had to be laboriously fought out or thought out in past times.