“To get away from one's working environment is; in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.”

“Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.”

“To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.”

“Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.”

“An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.”

“The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.”

“The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.”

“All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.”

“If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.”