Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender;