Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there are rights, there is an authority to which we appeal for them.

Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.

La mejor prueba de la cultura y la liberalidad de un hombre es su actitud ante las cosas que nunca sucedieron.

Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.