Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.

Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?

Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this period, he was a bad man. Then he became good, abandoned his daughter, adopted correct principles and wrote bad poetry.

More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.

Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.