A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very poor figure as far as romantic credulity is concerned beside the modern physicists who have settled to the billionth of a millimetre every movement and position in the dance of the electrons. Not for worlds would I question the precise accuracy of these calculations or the existence of electrons (whatever they may be). The fate of Joan is a warning to me against such heresy.

The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.