Books are the curse of the human race.
I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.
Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.
I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.