If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.

It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!