It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.
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.
Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.
Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.
Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.