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

Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

The Christian pities men because they are dying, and the Buddhist pities them because they are living. The Christian is sorry for what damages the life of a man; but the Buddhist is sorry for him because he is alive.

I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

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.