Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.
The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.
As we are, so we see.
Walls don't work. . . . Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.
It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.
To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival to force him to act against his own judgment, is like forcing him to act against his own sight
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.