“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.”

“It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.”

“The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.”

“The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.”

“Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.”

“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.”

“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.”

“Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.”

“Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.”