Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.

Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Life is about balance too much excess is chaos.

All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.