These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind

For I know that we laughers have a gross cousinship with the most high, and it is this contrast and perpetual quarrel which feeds a spring of merriment in the soul of a sane man.

An effort was made to spread this new materialist atheism with its Communist consequence “by the sword” (as the metaphor goes), that is, by the invasion of neighboring countries with consequent further massacres and the...

He served his god so faithfully and wellThat now he sees him face to face in hell.

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said, ‘His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Mr. Orage, one of the most active and intelligent reformers for the last generation in England, attempted this very thing. He, in his little intellectual review which was supported by so brilliant a group of...

Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!

…But that is a method for cowards; the brave man goes out into the hall, comes back with a stick, and says firmly, “You have just deliberately and cruelly exposed my ignorance before this company;...

No, she laughed.” How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say ‘No’ at the same time, it sounds like neighing — yet people are perpetually doing it in novels....

Whatever happens, we have gotThe Maxim gun, and they have not.

He [the poet] brings out the inner part of things and presents them to men in such a way that they cannot refuse but must accept it. But how the mere choice and rhythm of...

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.

In the perfect Capitalist State there would be no food available for the non-owner save when he was actually engaged in Production, and that absurdity would, by quickly ending all human lives save those of...

For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did.

If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.

Let me put it thus: that from the height of Weissenstein I saw, as it were, my religion. I mean, humility, the fear of death, the terror of height and of distance, the glory of...

The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too.He will consume what civilization has slowly produced after generations of selection and effort, but...