We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference.

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.