It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.

destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.

French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.

Life is the wonder with which we are all infused.

The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.

there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots.

Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.