Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a hundred years ago; I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago.

Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman.

Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.