Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.

I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.

The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.

IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril than that their peril is ultimately unreal. And if we wish to exalt the outcast and the crucified, we shall rather wish to think that a veritable God was crucified, rather than a mere sage or hero. Above all, if we wish to protect the poor we shall be in favour of fixed rules and clear dogmas. The rules of a club are occasionally in favour of the poor member. The drift of a club is always in favour of the rich one.

None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.