“Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.”

“What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.”

“It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.”

“Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.”

“The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.”

“Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.”

“Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.”

“Every artist writes his own autobiography.”

“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”

“Man lives by imagination.”

“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.”