A good man will never suspect his friends of shady actions: this is part of his goodness. A good man will never be suspected by the public of using his goodness to screen villains: this is part of his utility

The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.

In spite of Death, the mark and seal of the parental control, Man is yet free, during his brief years, to examine, to criticise, to know, and in imagination to create. To him alone, in the world with which he is acquainted, this freedom belongs; and in this lies his superiority to the resistless forces that control his outward life.

As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.

Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters.

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.