Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?

Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

Adventure is the champagne of life.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.