Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."