Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

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

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.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

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

History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils.

To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink.