One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.

We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.

Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one may not inquire about.

The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason.

He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.

The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.

This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our minds there is perhaps even more that grates on our nerves.