There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the moment we have it we spend it, sometimes well, sometimes ill, but we spend it. Money is nothing to us; it's merely the symbol of success. We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to think that we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.

The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made out. No one has ever been able to explain why the Doric temple of Paestum is more beautiful than a glass of cold beer except by bringing in considerations that have nothing to do with beauty.

No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.

We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.