It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape.

There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty.

The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

Oaths are the fossils of piety.