Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom.

The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of the rich and the wounds of the poor.

When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.

A “fraternity” is the antithesis offraternity. The first (that is, the order or organization) is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based on a feeling of total equality.

Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.

Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat.