I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

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

I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.

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 never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

One can repent even of having repented.