Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.

You can prove almost anything with the evidence of a small enough segment of time. How often, in any search for truth, the answer of the minute is positive, the answer of the hour qualified, the answers of the year contradictory!

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.

Whenever there is an organized movement to persuade people to believe or do something, whenever an effort is made to "propagate" a creed or set of opinions or convictions or to make people act as we want them to act, the means employed are called propaganda.

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.

It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.