There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.

If one were loyal to one's nation only because it was good and true ... one would not be loyal to any nation but to truth and goodness. The idea of patriotism would have no place either in our dictionaries or our lives.

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.