The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.

The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that if the recent decline in the birth-rate were continued for a certain time, it might end in there being no babies at all; which would console them very much.

Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.