It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.

I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth.

Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.