What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

Europe's the mayonnaise all right, but America supplies the good old lobster.

Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more.

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.