Art is both creation and recreation.

I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.

No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.

Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.

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

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.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.