Paradoxes are the only truths.

In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.