In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem".

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.

There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.

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.