You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.

It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... "It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here", repeating itself eternally.

None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

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.

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.