To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.

Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.