By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.

Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.