A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.

He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl.

When "everyone knows" that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see where that leads.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.