In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity.

We of the third sphere are unable to look at Europe or at Asia as they may survey each other. Wherever we go, across Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre.' Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity.

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?

History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies.

Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.

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