If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.

Unhappy people are dangerous.

I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.