Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.
It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.
I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.
It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.
Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.
Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.