There is nothing more frightening than the faces of people whom one does not know but who seem to know one, and be amused by one.

whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.

Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

Domesticity is essentially drama, for drama is conflict, and the home compels conflict by its concentration of active personalities in a small area. The real objection to domesticity is that it is too exciting.

There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in the way of ignition.