Happiness is a hardy annual.

it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.

...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was old and tired and prudent, that loved ritual and rubric, and was utterly wanting in curiosity about the new and the strange. Its era has passed away, and the world it made has crumbled around us. Its finest creation, a code of manners, has been ridiculed and discarded.

Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.

Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble.