My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.

Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.