Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

Youth is just wasted on young people.

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

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