The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.

Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.

If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.

One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.

Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.