The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.
God may still be in His Heaven, but there is more than sufficient evidence that all is not right with the world.
Life is always at some turning point.
The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.