Near a war is always not very near.

I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

August is a month when if it is hot weather it is really very hot.

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.