When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.