When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.

A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.

When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.

Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.