You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.