The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.

Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.