"Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well."

"I have instructed my representatives to stop negotiating until after the election when, immediately after I…"

"I worked as a volunteer at that session and heard Mahatma Gandhi for the first time. I was profoundly impre…"

"Genetically speaking, the explanation both of rites and of symbols would seem to lie in the conditions of p…"

"Past and future are but two aspects of behavior, the past being the persistent modifications in the behavin…"

"The sin of bourgeois patriotism was to confound a certain economic form with the national. It connected two…"

"A Book of Hours by Thomas Merton"