In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

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.

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.

I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.