A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together. Their top-heavy dignity is more touching than any humility; their solemnity gives us more hope for all things than a thousand carnivals of optimism; their large and lustrous eyes seem to hold all the stars in their astonishment; their fascinating absence of nose seems to give to us the most perfect hint of the humour that awaits us in the kingdom of heaven.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions - the idea of property... Property is merely the art of the democracy... One would think, to hear people talk, that the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers were on the side of property. But obviously they are the enemies of property; because they are enemies of their own limitations.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.