I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.

The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.

If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.