Paul Elmer More

“A man's true touchstone is that in which he seriously mistakes.”

“As a man grows old, his joy must be that of a container, must be the joy of receiving, not of taking.”

“Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect.”

“The devil is the great estimator, and he sets the price of all things.”

“The world has always been and will always be intellectually aristocratic.”

“The great danger of democracy is that it is a sort of fetish, and that men will be content with the name and the form, while the substance has departed.”

“Without discipline, there is no liberty.”

“Character is a long-standing habit.”

“The essence of morality is the power of inhibition.”

“True charity is not a matter of sentiment, but of will.”

“The highest art is always a form of religion.”

“The law of taste is a law of selection.”

“The dualism of good and evil is the first principle of all ethics.”

“The end of education is not to make a man a specialist, but to make him a man.”

“To be modern is to be vulgar.”

“The imagination is the faculty of illusion.”