The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.

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.

We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.