America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.

Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.

(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

That all war is physically frightful is obvious; but if that were a moral verdict, there would be no difference between a torturer and a surgeon. There are certain intellectuals who are too bright to be content with merely praising peace but who are infuriated by anybody praising war. If no war is possible, all criminality has its chance

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.