Great Throughts Treasury

"Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman."

"With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation."

"A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him."