The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.

The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions - the idea of property... Property is merely the art of the democracy... One would think, to hear people talk, that the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers were on the side of property. But obviously they are the enemies of property; because they are enemies of their own limitations.

I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.