I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

Misery is a match that never goes out.