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.

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.

The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

But one sound always rose above the clamor of busy life and, no matter how much of a tintinnabulation, was never confused and, fora moment lifted everything into an ordered sphere: that of the bells.