When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads.

Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.

There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the decreased sensibility of our senses and our lack of full use of them. All human happiness is sensuous happiness.

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.

A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?