There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo The Last Puritan and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my...
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
There is nothing sacred about convention there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of ma...
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway.
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
England is the paradise of individuality eccentricity heresy anomalies hobbies and humours.
Before you contradict an old man my fair friend you should endeavour to understand him.
The earth has its music for those who will listen.