We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

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.

Heartbreak is life educating us.

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.