Swans in the winter airA white perfection have

In headaches and in worry vaguely life leaks away, And time will have his fancy tomorrow or today.

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets.

It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.

To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, / Is a keen observer of life, / The word 'Intellectual' suggests straight away / A man who's untrue to his wife.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office every day. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.Â

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate