We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it.

It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.

Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.

When many people individually get what they want, the result may be something they collectively dislike.

The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.