No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.

Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.