I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears.

The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded.

Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.