Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.