Blake Barton’s Reviews > Essays of E.B. White > Status Update

Paraphrasing this one: Some men are bound to make the world more convenient even if it means destroying it in the process.

“If our future journeys are to be little different from flashes of light, with no interim landscape and no interim thought, I think we will have lost the whole good of journeying and will have succumbed to the mere preoccupation with getting there.”

“Justice will find a home where there is a synthesis of liberty and unity in a framework of government.”

“All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.”

“I know, too, that on some not too distant night, somewhere in a pond or ditch or low place, a frog will awake, raise his voice high in praise, and be joined by others. I will feel a whole lot better when I hear the frogs.”

“Perhaps success in the future will depend partly on our ability to generate cheap power, but I think it will depend to a greater extent on our ability to resist a technological formula that is sterile: peas without pageantry, corn without coon, knowledge without wisdom, kitchens without a warm stove.”