Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

In detective stories . . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but . . . there are those to which this vicarious outlet is too mild.

All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things : That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave

Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.