Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.

We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.

Life calls the tune, we dance.

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.