A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.