A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. |
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud. |
A country without a memory is a country of madmen. |
A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. |
A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world |
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. |
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepte |
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. |
All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. |
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. |
America is a young country with an old mentality |
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences |
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. |
An artist may visit a museum, but only a pedant can live there |
Art, like life, should be free, since both are experimental |