Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.