If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better but because they contain precisely those truths of which our own age is neglectful.

“I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science…”

“Love... is a deep unity maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by…”

“Nearly all our older poetry was written and read by men to whom the distinction…”

“Do not dare not to dare.”