The world is coming to an end in 1950.

There are two things that seem to be at the bottom of our constitutions; one is a continual tendency towards politics; the other is family pride; and it is strange how these two feelings run through all of us.

One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.

Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.

To my fancy, one looks back on life, it has only two responsibilities, which include all the others: one is the bringing of new life into existence; the other, educating it after it is brought in. All betrayals of trust result from these original sins.

A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.