The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all.

The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.

Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.

Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor

A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time.

Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines of rival sects, and to denounce the divines themselves as theological quacks.