The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity.

[T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist.

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

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.

In a large university, there are as many deans and executive heads as there are schools and departments. Their relations to one another are intricate and periodic; in fact, "galaxy" is too loose a term: it is a planetarium of deans with the President of the University as a central sun. One can see eclipses, inner systems, and oppositions.

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.

Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.