Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.

All government is an ugly necessity.

The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.

The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.

Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.