I shudder to think what would become of immense numbers of intelligent and high-minded men and women who at present earn their livelihood by advocating some reform which is very unlikely to be carried, if, by some magician's stroke, all their various measures were to be achieved. The ranks of the unemployed would be swelled most dangerously. The motto of the secretary of a society should be 'To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive', for arrival spells ruin.
Source: On societies (written in June 8, 1932 and pub. in Mortals and Others, v.1, 1975
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