Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

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.

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.