Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.

I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth.

Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.

The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.

Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province of liberty; a limitation within which a citizen is a king.