The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.

Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization. . . . A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.

A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.

It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve without generating electricity, a trumpeter swan may float on uncontaminated water - and moderns may at least see what their ancestors knew in their nerves and blood.

The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.

The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.

The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.