Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening.

It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.

Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.

Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.

Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune in 1932, 'not for lack of sympathy with the ambition of undertakers to be well regarded, but because of it. If they haven't the sense to save themselves from their own lexicographers, we shall not be guilty of abetting them in their folly.

Objectivity? I always have an objective.

I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused by a natural urge in men to fight, that ownership of land and factories is not necessarily the natural reward of greater wisdom and energy.