One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.

Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways.

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.