Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.

The most important fact about the subject of education is that there is no such thing. Education is not a subject and it does not deal in subjects. It is instead the transfer of a way of life.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

A yawn is a silent shout.

Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.