O amazement of things-even the least particle!
Classical ballet will never die.
You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.
Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.
You never advance without losing something en passant. . . you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.
Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.
First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.
I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe would be so likewise, or a history of beasts; or a painting of all the aspects of the clouds. Everything is significant.
I have a disgracefully sweet tooth. My younger brother and I, all we care about are puddings. You can keep your smoked salmon and caviar.
There are chords in the human heart- strange, varying strings- which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch.
When I stop asking questions, something's wrong.