A faith is that which is able to survive a mood.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.

Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth.

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.