Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
Joseph Wood KrutchWe have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone but of everything which shares with us the great adventure of being alive.
Joseph Wood KrutchFebruary... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or - as the puritanical old saying used to have it - to kill time until it kills you.
Joseph Wood KrutchSecurity depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
Joseph Wood Krutch