The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.

Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.

The . . . increase in the power of officials is a constant source of irritation to everybody else.

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.

Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.

The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

The whole realm of thought and opinion is utterly unsuited to public control; it ought to be as free, and as spontaneous as is possible. The state is justified in insisting that children shall be educated, but it is not justified in forcing their education to proceed on a uniform plan and to be directed to the production of a dead level of glib uniformity.