The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.

I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his eye and a lawsuit in his voice.

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

Some objects and events may be photographed, others, if one is to render their true quality, should be painted or set to music, since their essence is more faithfully reproduced through imagination than by the journalistic report.

Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.