The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet toits god of art. Latin is the embodiment of the weighty and concentrated speech which is hammered and pressed and polished into the shape of its perfection, as the ethically minded Romans believed that the soul also should be wrought.

The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.

It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.

The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.