Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

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.

The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.