One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.

Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

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