A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

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.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.