In the modern conflict between the Smile and the Laugh, I am all in favor of laughing. The recent stage of culture and criticism might very well be summed up as the men who smile criticizing the men who laugh.

Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.

Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.

America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.