There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally.

There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives; and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.

Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.

The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.

Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts their training as the best possible training. Those who are most successful in the state are those who have the most interest in prolonging the state as it is; they are also those who have the most say in the educational system, and in particular by ensuring that the educational product they want is the most highly rewarded.

The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love.