If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

Every island to a child is a treasure island.

Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.

Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?

Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.

you'd like the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That must be the most futile oath anyone ever swears.

Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.