The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy.

I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?

The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.

I am convinced that the majority of people to-day have good, generous feelings which they can never know, never experience, because of some fear, some repression. I do not believe that people would be villains, thieves, murderers and sexual criminals if they were freed from legal restraint.

The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living termsonce had a vast and perhaps perfect science of itsown, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.

There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily and nothing but lily: and the lily in blossom is a ne plus ultra: there is no evolving beyond.