"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."

"Conscientious objection is a right that the state should respect, but which it has hardly ever respected."

"The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one – particularly if he plays golf, which he usually does."

"I would rather be miserable than happy, if to be happy means to be stupid."

"We civilised men do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick .... Thus the weak members of civilised societies propagate their kind. …"