Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.

The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth.

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.