Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit.

If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him. I often have a suspicion that God is still trying to work things out and hasn't finished.

Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.

I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.

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

I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.

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