All I know is I've tried my best.
. . . it is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity. . . it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great many inhibitions to follow a social code.
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 best thing about being a Yankee is getting to watch Reggie Jackson play every day. The worst thing about being a Yankee? Getting to watch Reggie Jackson play every day
Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.
Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.
May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.