“Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.”

“London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.”

“But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else.”

“Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.”

“Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.”

“What should they know of England who only England know?”

“There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right it is the ideal American...”

“Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.”

“Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.”

“Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.”

“Someone has said that culture is what remains with you after you have forgotten all you have read, and I believe there i...”

“In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called cul...”