Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise.

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