Stephen L. Carter

Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.

To Tom, the march of technology was equivalent to the march of civilization.

He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.

He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.

Size and elaboration were often mistaken for importance.

He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.