There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.

There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.

Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.