How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.

Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them.

The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.

I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.

It would be an inconvenient rule if nothing could be done until everything can be done.

Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only lasts twenty minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces.

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.