The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.

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.

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

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