There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.
Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.
To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.