When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.

That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her.

The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.