Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.
Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.
The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.
Art is a delayed echo.