All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be said of the Socialists' ideal. They are saying that private property is too ideal not to be impossible. They are saying that private enterprise is too good to be true. They are saying that the idea of ordinary men owning ordinary possessions is against the laws of political economy and requires an alteration in human nature.

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments.

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.