We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.

All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.

The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.

Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. In other words, the natural mystic does know that there is something there, something behind the clouds or within the trees; but he believes that the pursuit of beauty is the way to find it; that imagination is a sort of incantation that can call it up.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.