That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice

The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, one law for the cunning and another for the simple, one law for the forceful and another for the feeble, one law for the ignorant and another for the learned, one law for the brave and another for the timid, and within family limits one law for the parent and no law at all for the child.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.