Spencer, Herbert

"The greatest teacher is experience."

"Justice delayed is justice denied."

"The human spirit is capable of extraordinary things."

"Adversity is the forge of character."

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."

"Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity."

"Time is that which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him."

"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to people the world with fools."

"Science is organized knowledge."

"In the absence of facts, hearsay prevails."

"The secret of excellence is discipline."

"Life is not a state of well-being, but a state of constant activity."

"The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality."

"Survival of the fittest applies to nations as well as to species."

"The human intellect is not the highest faculty."

"Art is the effort of man to express, not to expose, himself."

"Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man."

"True bravery is shown by performing without witnesses what one might be capable of doing before all the world."

"The true conception of glory is that it shall be a faithful echo of heroic deeds."

"Music, like the arts generally, is not yet sufficiently valued in our education."

"Fit institutions may be trusted to modify their own forms gradually."

"The function of liberalism in the past was that of putting a limit on the powers of kings."

"The human being is a compound of contradictions."

"Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as though it were merely an ugly speculation of materialism, seem little to realize that in abandoning it they leave the doctrines of Creation and Providence without any support."

"It is in the commercial spirit that real friendship flourishes."

"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."

"Education has for its object the formation of character."

"Incompleteness in the middle is the inevitable price of progress."

"The law says that we must give them time."

"Existence is conditioned by, and is an expression of, perpetual activity."