When cats sat staring into the fire they were thinking out problems.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

But if it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort — and very different from the kind that is being made at the moment.

Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.

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.

The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.

All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons, and it’s an absolute toss-up, isn’t it? If one could only invent them, like characters in books, it would be much more satisfactory to a well-regulated mind.