Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.

Every man should be capable of all ideas.

Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone

I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it to looking for meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines of one's hands . . . They admit that the inventors of writing imitated the twenty-five natural symbols, but they maintain that this application is accidental and that books in themselves mean nothing. This opinion - we shall see - is not altogether false.

The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.