Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.