A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.

I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight because it is a sham-fight; thus most of us know by this time that the Party System has been popular only in the sense that a football match is popular.

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.

I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.

The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.