What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.

It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done it - yah!' The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it.

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and the sudden acquisition of wealth.

He was being about as protective as a can-opener.

It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.