"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."

"The past is but the beginning of a beginning."

"Religion is pickled God."

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

"Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom"

"It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them."

"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."

"Life always sucks. It's just that sometimes that feels very good."

"It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember."

"And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak."

"A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are built for."

"The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise."