A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage.

The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever.

If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.

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

Don't write about Man; write about a man.