Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.

He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl.

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.