A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion.

Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.

Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.