The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!

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.

We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion---