Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy

Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but where human judgment abdicates. The smoothest machine-made product of the age is the organization man, for even the best organizing principle tends to corrupt, and the mechanical principle corrupts absolutely.

Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment