Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.