The natural object is always the adequate symbol.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.