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.

Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

The Byzantines hammered away at their hard and orthodox symbols, because they could not be in a mood to believe that men could take a hint. The moderns drag out into lengths and reels of extravagance their new orthodoxy of being unorthodox, because they also cannot give a hint -- or take a hint. Yet all perfect and well-poised art is really a hint.

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts.