Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.

I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth.

Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.