Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.

They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.

[F]or contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.

Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.