Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

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

Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.