Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

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.

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.