“Flippancy is a flower whose roots are often underground in the subconsciousness.”

“Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.”

“Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.”

“Unfortunately he was one of those who always tend to take their own fancies seriously; and in whose otherwise legitimate extravagance there is too little of the juice of the jest.”

“Man does not necessarily begin with despotism because he is barbarous, but very often finds his way to despotism because he is civilised. He finds it because he is experienced; or, what is often much the same thing, because he is exhausted”

“The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.”

“But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.”