The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power than the individual husband or wife or household. Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.

Progress is the mother of all problems.

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.

It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.