All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.

The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.

And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads.

To be simple is the best thing in the world.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.