When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.

There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.

Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.

The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.