The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive

Habit is stronger than reason.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.

The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.

Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.