When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.

Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.

THERE are no wise few; for in all men rages the folly of the Fall. Take your strongest, happiest, handsomest, best born, best bred, best instructed men on earth and give them special power for half an hour and because they are men they will begin to [perform] badly.

(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.