If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growing more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous indignation to the next.

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language.

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.