The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.

Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly; we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.