None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.

A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it - because it is a fact.