Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?

Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.

The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.

we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best speakers: they all fire off speeches which deal with the entire subject in general terms and which do not attempt to debate, to answer opponents' arguments or offer new points for discussion. And the speeches are constantly degenerating into empty rhetoric; they abound in quotations from well-known authors or from their own former speeches.

Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.

All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.