I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.