Nearly All Novels Are Too Long.

Parents Are Untamed, Excessive, Potentially Troublesome Creatures; Charming To Be With For A Time, In The Main They Must Lead Their Own Lives, Independent And Self-employed, With Companions Of Their Own Age And Selection.

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.

Women Have One Great Advantage Over Men. It Is Commonly Thought That If They Marry They Have Done Enough, And Need Career No Further. If A Man Marries, On The Other Hand, Public Opinion Is All Against Him If He Takes This View.

Atheism Was Natural Enough, But Heresy Seemed Strange. For, Surely, If One Could Believe Anything, One Could Believe Everything.

Life Is One Long Struggle To Disinter Oneself, To Keep One's Head Above The Accumulations, The Ever Deepening Layers Of Objects ... Which Attempt To Cover One Over, Steadily, Almost Irresistibly, Like Falling Snow.