In our entrancement with the motorcar, we have forgotten how much more efficient and how much more flexible the footwalker is.

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.

The mind reproduces itself by transmitting its symbols to other intermediaries, human and mechanical, than the particular brain that first assembled them.

The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.

Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.

Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.

Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old men.