Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle.

If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice

What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system.

Only six need be attempted.