Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.

A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing toward a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it particularly nasty.

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.