I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.
“Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.”
“Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.”