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.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

Success has always been a great liar.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.