In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.

I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.

Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take only one example of it: our politicians can no longer be caricatured.