There is no escape from mystery. It is the character of our being.

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

Good God enlighten us! Which of these two belongs to the sterner sex - the man who sits in Whitehall all his life on a comfortable salary, or the woman who has to keep her teeth bared lest she has her meatless bone of 17s. 4d. a week snatched away from her and who has to produce the next generation on her off-days?

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

... when the Spaniards persecuted heretics they may have been crude, but they were not being unreasonable or unpractical. They were at least wiser than the people of to-day who pretend that it does not matter what a man believes, as who should say that the flavour and digestibility of a pudding will have nothing to do with its ingredients.

Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.

I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.