Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.

Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.