The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.