The lovers of beauty must unite in a league, and carry out some great propagandist work through the country. They must demand the extermination of th….

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before..

A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet..

There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by ….

Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost always….

Mr. Shaw came for a short time recently to be regarded less as an author than as an incident in the European War. In the opinion of many people it se….

When one has praised Turgenev, however, for the beauty of his character and the beautiful truth of his art, one remembers that he, too, was human and….

Keats, it must be remembered, was a sensualist. His poems ... reveal him as a man not altogether free from the vulgarities of sensualism, as well as ….

Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in th….

No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street..

A cat is only technically an animal, being divine..

Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them..

We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it..

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf..

When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping an….

Swinburne was an absurd character. He was a bird of showy strut and plumage. One could not but admire his glorious feathers; but, as soon as he began….

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions..

It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans..

We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing..

The mirror that Strindberg held up to Nature was a cracked one. It was cracked in a double sense -- it was crazy. It gave back broken images of a wor….

Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule..