As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.

I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visual arts, the theatre, must work singly and together to create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, the free man.