If fathers were to be mothers, then there will never have a family of more than three.

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.

I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.