The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

Riches are for spending.

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils

We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.