Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: "Too bad we can't get together more often".

The Renaissance had resulted in the emancipation of the individual, in making him feel that the universe had no other purpose than his happiness. This brought an entirely new answer to the question, 'Why should I do this or that?' It used to be, 'Because self-instituted authority command you.' The answer now was, 'Because it is good for men.' In this lies our greatest debt to the Renaissance, that it instituted the welfare of men as the end of all action.

Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visual arts, the theatre, must work singly and together to create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, the free man.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.