Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.