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

I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

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

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.