That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man one house - this remains the real vision and magnet of mankind. The world may accept something more official and general, less human and intimate. But the world will be like a broken-hearted woman who makes a humdrum marriage because she may not make a happy one; Socialism may be the world's deliverance, but it is not the world's desire.

A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage.

Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.