Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not); it is that they are boastful about those particular things which nobody can boast of without losing them.

If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue humanely, we may argue with great mutual benefit: but, obviously, we must argue.

Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.

And I will add this point of merely personal experience of humanity: when men have a real explanation they explain it, eagerly and copiously and in common speech, as Huxley freely gave it when he thought he had it. When they have no explanation to offer, they give short dignified replies, disdainful of the ignorance of the multitude.

A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.