Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.
Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.