As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.

There's one thing about freedom ... each generation of people begins by thinking they've got it for the first time in history, and ends by being sure the generation younger than themselves have too much of it. It can't really always have been increasing at the rate people suppose, or there would be more of it by now.

Words move, turning over like tumbling clowns; like certain books and like fleas, they possess activity. All men equally have the right to say, 'This word shall bear this meaning,' and see if they can get it across. It is a sporting game, which all can play, only all cannot win.

One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.

Never approach a friend's wife or girlfriend with mischief as your goal... unless she's really attractive.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.