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

Man's most serious activity is play.

People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.

The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly hangs about it, since it is the immovable standard and silent witness of all our memories and assertions; and the past and the future, which in our anxious life are so differently interesting and so differently dark, are one seamless garment for the truth, shining like the sun.

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