Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.

It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time.

If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.

CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.