For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.