In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue.

I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards.

How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?