Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.

The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries, all the schools, all the workshops, all the secondary institutions that once had some authority of their own. Everything is ultimately brought into the Law Courts. We are trying to stop the leak at the other end.

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.

Theology is only thought applied to religion.