You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.

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

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

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

Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified human race.

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.

Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.