Great men speak to us only so far as we have ears and souls to hear them; only so far as we have in us the roots, at least, of that which flowers out in them.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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.
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
