Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain

Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.

Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

An enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful. As I have said above, these defences generally exhibit themselves most emphatically in the form of appeals to physical science. And of all the forms in which science, or pseudo-science, has come to the rescue of the rich and stupid, there is none so singular as the singular invention of the theory of races.

Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.