If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.
Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.
Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.
You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.