The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards.

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

Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.