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

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

Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way

We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.

Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.

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.

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