Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

Go away. I'm all right. [last words]

Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.

Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.

Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.