If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.