(of Belmont Club):
“It is probable that man’s whole viability depends on a kind of agnostic faith, on the stubborn determination to go over the next hill to a  slightly better approximation of what he will never completely attain. Perhaps man alone lives for what he cannot have. And therefore he lives. Humanity’s existence, indeed its continuation, relies upon a persistent restlessness and a longing.  The day he rests is the day he dies. No fertile valley or restful stream will ever be his home, though he should live out his days in them.”