“I should like to know what people fear the most: whatever is contrary to their usual habits, I imagine.”

“What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.”

“Contrary to what most people say and believe, the simplicity is a great thing, i actually believe in - complexity is a fantastic thing and complex things should be approached in a complex way.”

“I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.”

“I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.”

“I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.”