“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”

Sex Slavery (1890)
Context: Now for the remedy. It is in one word, the only word that ever brought equity anywhere — LIBERTY! Centuries upon centuries of liberty is the only thing that will cause the disintegration and decay of these pestiferous ideas. Liberty was all that calmed the bloodwaves of religious persecution! You cannot cure serfhood by any other substitution. Not for you to say "in this way shall the race love." Let the race alone.
Will there not be atrocious crimes? Certainly. He is a fool who says there will not be. But you can't stop them by committing the arch-crime and setting a block between the spokes of Progress-wheels. You will never get right until you start right.
As for the final outcome, it matters not one iota. I have my ideal, and it is very pure, and very sacred to me. But yours, equally sacred, may be different and we may both be wrong. But certain am I that with free contract, that form of sexual association will survive which is best adapted to time and place, thus producing the highest evolution of the type. Whether that shall be monogamy, variety, or promiscuity matters naught to us; it is the business of the future, to which we dare not dictate.

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 124

The Osbournes television show.

06-Mar-2007, Hull City OWS
It's maths, not rocket science.

Source: Leaving Time

The 4-Hour Workweek (2007)

Variant: A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy (2001), p. 258
An Exhortation to Learning