True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.