I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd of comrades.

A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.

Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.

There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

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.