The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution.

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.

Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.