whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.

Of all devils let loose in the world there is no devil like devoted love.

There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

The business of the artist is not to escape from his material medium or bully it, but to serve it; but to serve it, he must love it. If he does so, he will realise that in its service is perfect freedom.

I know what an Act to make things simpler means. It means that the people who drew it up don't understand it themselves and that every one of its clauses needs a law-suit to disentangle it.

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.