Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

An unmanly sort of man whose love life seems to have been largely confined to crying in laps and playing mouse.

If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.

The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods.

Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.

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.