When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.

Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart.

The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.

Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.

It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.