An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

Advertising is legalized lying.

...fact takes no heed of human hopes.

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.

Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw. Morality tells you what is right, and adventure moves you. If morality means anything it means keeping bounds, respecting implications, respecting implicit bounds. If individuality means anything it means breaking bounds – adventure.

The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.

And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses had nestled among their trees, wind wheels similar to those he saw and bearing like vast advertisements, gaunt and distinctive symbols of the new age, cast their whirling shadows and stored incessantly the energy that flowed away incessantly through all the arteries of the city. ... The great circular shapes of complaining wind-wheels blotted out the heavens.