Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.