Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.

The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be.

The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.

To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future.