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

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.

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

Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim.

Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject: One can judge a building without knowing where to buy the bricks; one can understand a violin sonata without knowing how to score for the instrument. The work may in fact be better understood without a knowledge of the details of its manufacture, of attention to these tends to distract from meaning and effect.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.