The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical faith in its non-mystical methods; above all-which perhaps most explains the expert's sovereignty-of external verities; of traffic-cop morality and rabbit-test truth.

For young people today things move so fast there is no problem of adjustment. Before you can adjust to A, B has appeared leading C by the hand, and with D in the distance.

Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.

In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire.

He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.

True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.