The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To be at last in such secure innocence that one can juggle with the universe and the stars, to be so good that one can treat everything as a joke - that may be, perhaps, the real end and final holiday of human souls.

Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.

Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.