By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.

One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night, or deep in sloping meadows, the feeling that every flower and leaf has just uttered something stupendously direct and important, and that we have by a prodigy of imbecility not heard or understood it. There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.

I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.

Adventure is the champagne of life.

A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.