Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health.

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.