I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.

What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.

The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone's account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time.

Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset.