The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries, all the schools, all the workshops, all the secondary institutions that once had some authority of their own. Everything is ultimately brought into the Law Courts. We are trying to stop the leak at the other end.

The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.

The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.