One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.

On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.

one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty.

You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!

I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.

Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that everybody tries to do just this. What else is gossip?