The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. I hold that that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future. The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
When you're through changing, you're through. The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding. He that knows least commonly presumes most. A memorandum is written not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer. I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves into the lives of others.