“A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love
“And while the law (of competition) may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department
“Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do
“The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to who
“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
“Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?
“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity - he is continually informing and filling some other body
“Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country
“The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never; it is the units, the single individuals, that are the power and the might.