Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts.

Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.

We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.