For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made to be sold. All the collapse of their commercial system in their own time has been due to that fallacy of forcing things on a market where there was no market; of continually increasing the power of supply without increasing the power of demand; of briefly, of always considering the man who sells the potato and never considering the man who eats it.

Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.

Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.