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.

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.

All progress means war with society.

Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.