If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

There are no new ideas about female education.

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

To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.

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.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.