There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in.

At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.