- At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial - and any question about sex is that - one cannot hope to tell the truth.
One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.
One can only give one’s audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasis of the speaker.
- Generally material circumstances are against it.
Dogs will bark; people will interrupt; money must be made; health will break down.
Further, accentuating all these difficulties and making them harder to bear is the world’s notorious indifference.
- I refuse to allow you, Beadle though you are, to turn me off the grass.
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
- Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities?
- No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.
- I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything else.
Do not dream of influencing other people, I would say, if I knew how to make it sound exalted.
Think of things in themselves.