There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.
Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.
The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.
Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.
You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.
The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature.
He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.
