History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.

I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters of degree.

I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.

The earth itself is slightly resistant to routine.