The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.

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.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.