There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

I think I like 'em better like that...divinely dull...just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.