All problems are finally scientific problems.

Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.

The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.