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.

He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.

The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong. Our attitude towards our equals in age consists in a servile solemnity, overlying a considerable degree of indifference or disdain. Our attitude towards children consists in a condescending indulgence, overlying an unfathomable respect.

It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.