“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. ”

“All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.”

“Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. ”

“Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.”

“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”

“The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”

“The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground. ”

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”

“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”

“The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.”

“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.”