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.

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

If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed, counts at the tips of his fingers how many things in this life truly will give him enjoyment, invariably he will find food is the first one.

All human happiness is sensuous happiness.

I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colours richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content.

I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.