An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.

The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there is almost nothing to resist at all.

A book lives as long as it is unfathomed.

The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.

Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?

Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

He had made a passionate study of education, only to come, gradually, to the knowledge that education is nothing but the process of building up, gradually, a complete unit of consciousness. And each unit of consciousness is the living unit of that great social, religious, philosophic idea towards which humankind, like an organism seeking its final form, is laboriously growing.