Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

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.

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.

Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.