All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

But I like the feel of men on things, while they're alive. There's a feel of men about trucks, because they've been handled with men's hands, all of them.

What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody who wants to do us harm. No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them.

Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.

Europe is, perhaps, the least worn-out of the continents, because it is the most lived in. A place that is lived in lives.

There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.