“I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.”

“Angling is tightly woven in a fabric of moral, social, and philosophical threads which are not easily rent by the violent climate of our times.”

“I have come to the conclusion that imperialism and exploitation are forms of cannibalism and, in fact, are precisely those forms of cannibalism which are most diabolical or evil.”

“the fellow members of even the smallese nation will never know most of their fellow members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of the communion...Communities are to be distinguished, not by their falsity or genuineness, but in the style in which they are imagined.”

“I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.”

“The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.”