He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.

But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

That all war is physically frightful is obvious; but if that were a moral verdict, there would be no difference between a torturer and a surgeon. There are certain intellectuals who are too bright to be content with merely praising peace but who are infuriated by anybody praising war. If no war is possible, all criminality has its chance