In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone's account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time.

All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.