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.

How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat