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

It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.

The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong. Our attitude towards our equals in age consists in a servile solemnity, overlying a considerable degree of indifference or disdain. Our attitude towards children consists in a condescending indulgence, overlying an unfathomable respect.

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.