Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

"The right moment for starting on your next job is not tomorrow or next week; it is "instanter," or in the American idiom, "right now."""

"There is a kind of intellectual provincialism in the dogma that "life is just one damned thing after another" . . . human affairs do not become intelligible until they are seen as a whole."

"I don't believe a committee can write a book . . . . It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book."