If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

It is most oppressive to be an aunt.

Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.

A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat of his is growing up, and I certainly licked the hide off her; and she's seen marriage at its worst, and now she's dreaming about 'supermen' and 'great men'. What is the good of doing anything for them?

Women have been brought up much like slaves, that is, to lie.

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

The white man in the tropics degenerates every day.