I like the Cyclostyle ink; it is so inky. I do not think there is anyone who takes quite such a fierce pleasure in things being themselves as I do. The startling wetness of water excites and intoxicates me: the fieriness of fire, the steeliness of steel, the unutterable muddiness of mud. It is just the same with people.... When we call a man "manly" or a woman "womanly" we touch the deepest philosophy.

Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.