The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

A naked moon stood in a naked sky.

Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined.

Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.

Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.

I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.