We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.

There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

There is nothing in religion but fiction.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshiper and the worshiper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three.

You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.