But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.

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

It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.

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.

If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.

Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.