Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.

The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense

In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man.

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless, if not worse.

I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken.