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.

Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

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.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.