Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization.

One does not reflect on a point of honor - that is already dishonor. To submit to insult, to forget a humiliation, to quail before an enemy - all these are signs of a life become worthless and superfluous.

One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though possibly a colored canvas and a sheet of notes will remain — because the last eye and the last ear accessible to their message will have gone.

You are caught in the current of unceasing change. Your life is a ripple in it. Every moment of your conscious life links the infinite past with the infinite future. Take part in both and you will not find the present empty.

One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.

Those who talk too much about race no longer have it in them.

All world-improvers are Socialists. And consequently there are no Classical world-improvers.