All problems are finally scientific problems.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.