The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out.

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.