A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

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

Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

All progress means war with society.