For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.

But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men have left God not for gods, they say, but for no gods; and this has never happened before. That men both deny gods and worship gods, professing first Reason, and the money, and power, and what they call life, or race, or dialect.The church disowned, the tower overthrown, the bells upturned, what have we to do but stand with empty hands and palms upturned in an age which advances progressively backwards?

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.