Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

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 truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong. Our attitude towards our equals in age consists in a servile solemnity, overlying a considerable degree of indifference or disdain. Our attitude towards children consists in a condescending indulgence, overlying an unfathomable respect.

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.

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

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.