A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.

The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.

[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants.

A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.

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.

Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.