Quoted in The Aging American
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Growing Old
An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
The John Clifford Lecture at Coventry (14 July 1930), published in This Torch of Freedom (1935), p. 46.
1930
Context: There is a saying as old as the Greeks that it is more important to form good habits than to frame good laws. There is an undercurrent of suspicion that this is true and that, like patriotism, legislation is not enough. The hopes held out when laws are framed are not always realised when laws are passed... What happens to all the laws placed on the statute book? If half the hopes of their promoters had been realised, would not the millennium have arrived ere this?
“One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.”
A Gift of Joy (with Lewis Funke, 1965), p. 11
“The man who has a dogmatic creed has more time left for his business.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 49
“This is a bit more expensive than my previous turbo-Ferrari habit, but not too bad.”
On spending $2 million on building rockets, Quoted in "Carmack's Jet Vanes" http://groups.google.com/group/sci.space.policy/msg/04e3682944fbcc74?hl=en (2004-05-13)
“There is a century-old saying, "The dollar votes more times than the man."”
Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 13, p. 222
“William Carlos Williams”, p. 216
Poetry and the Age (1953)
“Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.”
Source: What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question
“There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector”
"Gossip in a Library"
In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays
