A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.

I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.

And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.