People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.

A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic solely of children. They inability or unwillingness to see things as they are promotes both gullibility and charlatanism.

Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.

The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.