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

Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province of liberty; a limitation within which a citizen is a king.

All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

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.

Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.