Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.

Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing.