Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places.

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.

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.