Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government....Man's place is in the armory.

In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.

Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.

Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.