We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

All Socialism involves slavery.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

In that moment I was as jealous of her getting to leave Montana as I'd ever been of anything or anyone in my life.

In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children.

I definitely don't Google my name.

The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent--I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.

Socrates asks him the crucial question about education, and that is, If you study with this fellow, what will he make of you?

I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the "pay for use" binary shareware programs.

I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.

Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.

Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake. And who can resist the dance of the earthquake, mon?

Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.