A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

There are no boring subjects, only disinterested minds.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.