Welles and I differed, however, in our interpretation of the results of the Munich Conference, he being optimistic, I skeptical. In a radio address on October 3, several days after the conference, in which he described the steps taken by the United States Government just prior to Munich, he said that today, perhaps more than at any time during the past two decades, there was presented the opportunity for the establishment by the nations of the world of a new world order based upon justice and upon law. It seemed to me that the colors in the picture were much darker.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?

[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently place, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an egg-shell, a bit of string.

The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge.

It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.