We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.

Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.

Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.

Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on the back, and tells them he'll do anything in the world for them, they are very likely to think him clever.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.