One of the troubles of the day, observes Mr. C.N. Peac, is that once we came upon the little red schoolhouse, whereas now we come upon the little-read school boy.

For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.

Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

Most of the things that are supposed to be so objectionable in books are things that every teenager, in the United States, not only knows, but has talked about at length in school, or on the way home from school.