She likes you, she just doesn't understand you.
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.
Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.
. . . the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true-- not true, or undeveloped. With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon’s, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe.
How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?
In my opinion, one of the greatest animal-welfare problems is the physical abuse of livestock during transportation. . . . Typical abuses I have witnessed with alarming frequency are; hitting, beating, use of badly maintained trucks, jabbing of short objects into animals, and deliberate cruelty.
You're wonderful. Unique. I love you.