I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.