Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.

The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.

Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

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