“The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.”

“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.”