You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.

That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.