I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important.

... human kind cannot bear very much reality.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

It [television] is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favoured in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.

Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

Birth, and copulation, and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.