Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick. Being sick is a revolt. Both being sick and being rebellious may be the wholesome thing on certain desperate occasions; but I'm hanged if I can see why they are poetical...It is things going right," he cried, "that is poetical! Our digestions, for instance, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry...the most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.