Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different dreams.
Humanity, let us say, is like people packed in an automobile which is traveling downhill without lights at terrific speed and driven by a four-year-old child. The signposts along the way are all marked ‘Progress.
And she would not hold back his limbs when his heart was gone to the woods, for it is ever the way of witches with any two things to care for the more mysterious of the two.
Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.
I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.
Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.
The years are going by us like huge birds, whom Doom and Destiny and the schemes of God have frightened up out of some old gray marsh.
The fear of dogs is deep and universal amongst all that are less than Man.
I should have shouted “No” and left him. “But at least” said Satan in the deeps of my mind, “know what the temptation is before you do anything hastily.
It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science and about the things that were known before science came.
Everyone’s future is in reality uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.