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

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.

We ought to look the world frankly in the face.

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.

Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered on my arrival by the warder at the gate, who had to take particulars about me. He asked my religion, and I replied 'agnostic.' He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.' This remark kept me cheerful for about a week.

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