“Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.”
“The prisoner is the jailer's jailer.”
“Tradition with all its happy assumptions and necessary evils, all of its content majorities and stout killers, is not always a reliable guide.”
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
“The romantic chivalric tradition takes, or at any rate has in the past taken, the young man's eye off women as they are, as companions in shipwreck not guiding stars.”
“When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: "Try tobear lightly what needs must be." Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness andresignation that touched the hem of divinity.”