“How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.”

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.

Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.

The normal food of man is vegetable.

Some call it evolution, And others call it God.

Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.

The willing horse is always overworked.

We are optimists, until we are not.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.

I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.

I long to set foot where no man has trod before.

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.

If you spend any time with a man, you’ll realize that we’re all still little boys.

Live a life that makes you feel proud when you discuss your past with your children in the future.

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.

Perhaps my children will live in stone houses and walled towns -Not I.

Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.

Do things that light up the child in you. Do things that make you feel honest and true.