Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large-This is the experience of inestimable value to everyone.

Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.

The silent bear no witness against themselves.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.