Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound, An eye to look round, And at folly or vice let it fly

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.

The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.

Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

Since in every European country between 1870 and 1914 there was a war party demanding armaments, an individualist party demanding ruthless competition, an imperialist party demanding a free hand over backward peoples, a socialist party demanding the conquest of power and a racialist party demanding internal purges against aliens - all of them, when appeals to greed and glory failed, invoked Spencer and Darwin, which was to say science incarnate.