An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it.
It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.