Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either.

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.

sentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words, are the foundations of all language. ... Your cat has no words, but it has considerable feeling for the architecture of the sentence in relation to the problem of expressing climax.

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death.

A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.

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