There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

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

Fear first created the gods.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made us ashamed of ourselves when it was happening: there is a pleasant panoramic sense of what it all was and how it all had to be. Why, if we are not vain or snobbish, need we desire that it should have been different? The better things we missed may yet be enjoyed or attained by someone else somewhere: why isn't that just as good? And there is no regret, either, in the sense of wishing the past to return, or missing it: it is quite real enough as it is, there at its own date and place.