A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.

There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth.

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

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.