What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.

What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.

It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.