Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.

Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done.

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.