There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.