Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.

Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?

The interactions of business and culture, one upon the other, form one of the least explored phases of history. For such a study, no city would appear better fixed than Florence, so richly dowered with both economic and spiritual vitality.

Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.

It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.

the 'public' - a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers.

The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.