children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society needs them - to perpetuate itself. Unfortunately, however, children are of no use to a business society until they have almost reached physical maturity.

In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.

The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.

I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.

... it takes a great deal to produce ennui in an Englishman and if you do, he only takes it as convincing proof that you are well-bred.

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.

How close beneath the surface, even in the happiest family, is the chronic grievance! I sometimes think that tinderboxes are inert and powder kegs mere talcum compared to the explosive possibilities in the most commoplace domestic situation.