I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?

The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.

This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.