I would like [the working man] to give me back books and newspapers and theories. And I would like to give him back, in return, his old insouciance, and rich, original spontaneity and fullness of life.

Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.

Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.