They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed

Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. In other words, the natural mystic does know that there is something there, something behind the clouds or within the trees; but he believes that the pursuit of beauty is the way to find it; that imagination is a sort of incantation that can call it up.

The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.

Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.

Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.