Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.