Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

Either move or be moved.

Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.

Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding INbreeding.... No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.

A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

The thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)

The natural object is always the adequate symbol.