The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
Joseph Wood KrutchWhen, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as, sometimes, because they are reasonable.
Joseph Wood KrutchFew people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
Joseph Wood KrutchThe typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot be bought.
Joseph Wood Krutch