Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their whole world, and stories about what it is like to be married, and plays about the important problems of modern times. Tommy, being only ten years old, was not able to do harm on this large and handsome scale.

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem".

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.