Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.

The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.

How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.