There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.

The artisan or scientist or the follower of whatever discipline who has the habit of comparing himself not with other followers but with the discipline itself will have a lower opinion of himself, the more excellent he is.

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.

A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.

Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.