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.

Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel-cage of economic confusion in which we have been madly turning for the last three centuries or so, the cage in which we landed ourselves by acquiescing in a social system based upon Envy and Avarice. A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste.

It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.

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

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.

The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.