Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.

A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.

[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.

Style is effectiveness of assertion.

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.