What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons.

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.