A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.

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

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.

In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.