It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.