Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate. It is as true of democratic fraternity as a divine love; sham love ends in compromise and common philosophy; but real love has always ended in bloodshed.

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning of sunsets; they never dispute that the hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring.

Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.