Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.