Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world is dull and full of routine, but that the soul is sick and screaming. The problem of the fairy tale is: what will a healthy man do with a fantastic world? The problems of the modern novel is: what will a madman do with a dull world? In the fairy tales the cosmos goes mad; but the hero does not go mad. In the modern novels the hero is mad before the book begins, and suffers from the harsh steadiness and cruel sanity of the cosmos.

For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take only one example of it: our politicians can no longer be caricatured.

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.