The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews Not to be born is the best for man The second best is a formal order The dance's pattern, dance while you can. Dance, dance, for the figure is easy The tune is catching and will not stop Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.

How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.

a culture is no better than its woods