You Only Live A Short Time... And

Life Is Made Too Easy. Mankind's Moral Fibre Is Giving Way Under The Softening Influence Of Luxury.

We Have To Transpose Ourselves Into This Impressionability Of Mind, Into This Sensitivity To Tears And Spiritual Repentance, Intothis Susceptibility, Before We Can Judge How Colorful And Intensive Life Was Then.

Do You Know Anything That In All Its Innocence Is More Humiliating Than The Funny Pages Of A Sunday Newspaper In America?

History, As The Study Of The Past, Makes The Coherence Of What Happened Comprehensible By Reducing Events To A Dramatic Pattern And Seeming Them In A Simple Form.

History Can Predict Nothing Except That Great Changes In Human Relationships Will Never Come About In The Form In Which They Have Been Anticipated.