Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.

Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

Youth is just wasted on young people.

Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.