The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.

The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.

Nelson's famous signal before the Battle of Trafalgar was not: "England expects that every man will be a hero." It said: "Englandexpects that every man will do his duty." In 1805 that was enough. It should still be.

The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has acquired this cinematic perception to an amazing degree.

The more the specific feelings of being under obligation range themselves under a supreme principle of human dependence the clearer and more fertile will be the realization of the concept, indispensable to all true culture, of service; from the service of God down to the simple social relationship as between employer and employee.

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