We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel.

You could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that the baker performs a greater service; but no lover of music would agree.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Indemnity for the past and security for the future.