"The schoolboy who uses his Homer to throw at his fellow's head makes perhaps the safest and most rational use of him …"

"Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment, will ruin us if our citizens are ill b…"

"Progress can do nothing but make the most of us all as we are…"

"We must either breed political capacity or be ruined by Democracy, which was forced on us by the failure of the older…"

"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thorough…"

"Bunyan's perception that righteousness is filthy rags, his scorn for Mr Legality in the village of Morality, his defi…"

"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth."

"The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is."

"The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, soon…"

"Since marriage began, the great artist has been known as a bad-boy husband. But he is worse: he is a child-robber, a …"