The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.

There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.

somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.

Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.