The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist.

most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world.

You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.

Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain.