In England if something goes wrong--say, if one finds a skunk in the garden--he writes to the family solicitor, who proceeds to take the proper measures; whereas in America, you telephone the fire department. Each satisfies a characteristic need; in the English, love of order and legalistic procedure; and here in America, what you like is something vivid, and red, and swift.

Knowledge keeps no better than fish.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Problems are only opportunities in disquise.

Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.

Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.