Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.

Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.

The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.