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

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

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

Maxims in times of danger are useless, experience is incommunicable. The knotted strands of life, desire, assumptions, and moral codes cannot be unsnarled; they can only be cut, which is what happens when an air raid occurs, with a silencing fortissimo like the finale of a Beethoven symphony.

Music, not being made up of objects nor referring to objects, is intangible and ineffable; it can only be as it were inhaled by the spirit: the rest is silence.

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.