A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.

Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message.

Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality.

What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

There is too little courtship in the world.

Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.