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

Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.

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

At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. ... I had not imagined that there was anything so delicious in the world. After I had learned the fifth proposition, my brother told me that it was generally considered difficult, but I had found no difficulty whatsoever. This was the first time it had dawned on me that I might have some intelligence.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth