Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.