Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.

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

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.