Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.

Democracy has at least one merit, namely that a Member of Parliament cannot be stupider than his constituents, for the more stupid he is, the more stupid they were to elect him.

The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.

Patriotism which has the quality of intoxication is a danger not only to its native land but to the world, and "My country never wrong" is an even more dangerous maxim than "My country, right or wrong."

There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.