Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.

An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

Property is organized robbery.

Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.