How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.

With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.

If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.

I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.