The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue

Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.

An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.

Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.