Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

It is certain that most who concentrate upon achievement miss life.

The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.

To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise.

A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in any extended sense), and certainly not revealing to us, how, they came to be afoot on these particular journeys.

Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence and support of those who are mentally vulgar, but because of the simplification of human life implied in even the best of it purposes.

The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny.