If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not be sitting still. Something of this restlessness in the race may really be involved in the matter; but I think the deeper significance of the rocking-chair may still be found in the deeper symbolism of the rocking-horse. I think there is behind all this fresh and facile use of wood a certain spirit that is childish in the good sense of the word; something that is innocent, and easily pleased.

Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.

Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.