“...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.”

“As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.”

“Inequality was the price of civilization.”

“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”

“Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.”

“The world sleeps peaceably in their beds while rough men practice violence on their behalf.”

“Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated.”