[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.
History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.
The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.