A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know.

To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

Fine colour implies a unified relationship, in which each part is subordinate to the whole, and the transitions between them are felt to be as precious and beautiful as the colours themselves. In fact, the colours themselves must be continuously modified and broken as part of the transition.

Just as a classical dancer repeats the same movements again and again, in order to achieve a greater perfection of line and balance, so Degas repeats the same motifs - it was one of the things that gave him so much sympathy with dancers.

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.

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

In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.