In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.

Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.

The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.

In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.

Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.