Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.

Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.

I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.