We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.

People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.