When the necessary eleven days were added, George Washington’s birthday, which fell on February 11, 1731, Old Style, became February 22, 1732, New Style.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.

Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly ... to revere God and be God.