The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.

One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.

Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.