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

Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values.

Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.

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

In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

Most thoughtful Americans of today seem to have forgotten how strongly their own and immediate predecessors, Emerson, Hawthorne and Whitman, were still preoccupied with the essence behind things.