The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.

Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.

I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a picture of life now and of life in the past, but also as vehicles for the expression of general philosophic ideas, religious ideas, social ideas.

Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.