Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terriblepower that sometimes destroys us; but they don't talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before--truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.