If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.

Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.

Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.

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.