A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.

Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.

The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.