Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.