Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.

People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils from private life; but it seems to me to be always dropping diaphanous but blinding veils between men and men. The Yellow Press is abused for exposing facts which are private; I wish the Yellow Press did anything so valuable. It is exactly the decisive individual touches that it never gives; and a proof of this is that after one has met a man a million times in the newspapers it is always a complete shock and reversal to meet him in real life.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.