A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.

Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.

The finger that turns the dial rules the air.

Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.