Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all.

A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.

The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.

In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false dawns, the prison houses in which hope persists less grief than the promised lands where hope expires.

For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.

Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near nausea, much of it induced by trifles, which used to belong to people who were at once ill-adjusted and over-civilized?

Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.