If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.

Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

February... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or - as the puritanical old saying used to have it - to kill time until it kills you.