Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder ... is clothes.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results.

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.

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.

Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.