The various parts of the body cannot be perceived as simple units and have no clear relationship to one another. In almost every detail the body is not the shape that art has led us to believe it should be.

I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos.

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.

Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it.

We are part of a great whole. All living things are our brothers and sisters.

However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue, the later on Imperial grandeur the fact remains that classicism depended on a fixed and rational philosophy; whereas the spirit of the Revolution was one of change and of emotion.

The Cathedrals were built to the glory of God; New York was built to the glory of Mammon.