Jesus Christ is the only God who has a date in history.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.

And heresy is, as I have tried to show, largely the expression of opinion of the untutored average man, trying to grapple with the problems of the universe at the point where they begin to interfere with his daily life and thought.

If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle

A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant.