The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.

There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.

Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present.

As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.