Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

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.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.