And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime.

We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.

It is as dangerous for people unaccustomed to handling words and unacquainted with their technique to tinker about with these heavily-charged nuclei of emotional power as it would be for me to burst into a laboratory and play about with a powerful electromagnet or other machine highly charged with electrical force.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.