What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not be deceived by phrases about 'Man taking charge of his own destiny'. All that can really happen is that some men will take charge of the destiny of the others. They will be simply men; none perfect; some greedy, cruel and dishonest. The more completely we are planned the more powerful they will be. Have we discovered some new reason why, this time, power should not corrupt as it has done before?

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.

I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.

The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.

Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.