And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.