I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.

Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world...

Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.

The case against religion is the responsibility of God for the sufferings of mankind, which makes it impossible to believe the good things said about Him in the Bible, and consequently to believe anything it says about Him.

domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health.

If there is to be any romance in marriage woman must be given every chance to earn a decent living at other occupations. Otherwise no man can be sure that he is loved for himself alone, and that his wife did not come to the Registry Office because she had no luck at the Labour Exchange.

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.