The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works |
The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute. |
The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment. |
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind |
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game and do it by watching first some high-school or small-town teams |
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America, |