All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.