By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like the dog in the fable, whose collar has made an indelible mark around his neck. The amateur is the shaggy wolf whom no dog had better trust too far.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

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

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.

Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.