There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.

The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.

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