Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man

Culture sets apart man from barbarian, but not in all regards.

Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.

It's been terrible. ... The charges were absurd then, they remain absurd now.

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded