A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.

When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he is right. For the old culture has its greatness and goodness behind it, and an historical education forces one to admit that it can never again be fresh.

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.