Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

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

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.