Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

The past is not what it was.

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.

None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.