Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.