Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.

The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?