Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth with hisblack wings. And soon the end of the world is expected. But mankind does not repent, the church struggles, and the preachers and poets warn and lament in vain.

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.

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

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

Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and supersededby elements of lower quality.