A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Art is both creation and recreation.

It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.

I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.