The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many of the rich took to scepticism exactly as the poor took to drink; because it was a way out.

I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.

Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.