"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs."
"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."
"Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed."
"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail."
"Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else."