Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say

There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

To discover how to be human now is the reason we follow this star.

Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.

Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.