If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it ... If people are fit to live, let them live under decent human conditions. If they are not fit to live, kill them in a decent human way. Is it any wonder that some of us are driven to prescribe the lethal chamber as the solution for the hard cases which are at present made the excuse for dragging all the other cases down to their level, and the only solution that will create a sense of full social responsibility in modern populations?

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.