The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.

The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the isolation of all other forms of composition; for most good talkers, when they have run down, are miserable; they know that they have betrayed themselves, that they have taken material which should have a life of its own, to dispense it in noises upon the air.

Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems

No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.