Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness.

I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.