He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty. The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were only leaving it undefined. They thought they were only leaving it undefined, when they were really leaving it undefended.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.