You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.

It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.