If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn't, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.

No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.

the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

Economics and ethics have little in common.

Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.