Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?