She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

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

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.

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.