Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.

Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain