For a good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it seem almost like a live teacher.

It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and that ordinary education can take no account of so aristocratic a good. I do not believe this. The joy of mental adventure is far commoner in the young than in grown men and women. ...It is rare in later life because everything is done to kill it during education.

How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?

As soon as it is held that any belief, no matter what, is important for some other reason than that it is true, a whole host of evils is ready to spring up.

The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians.

If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody, and no unemployment — assuming a certain very moderate amount of sensible organization. This idea shocks the well-to-do, because they are convinced that the poor would not know how to use so much leisure.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.