Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.

The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.