Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

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.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

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

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and factories, I would design specially a house in which she can be free.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.