The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

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.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.