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.

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.

lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends.

Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'

I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.

Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.

the whole point of muck-raking, apart from all the jokes, is to try to do something about what you've been writing about. You may not be able to change the world but at least you can embarrass the guilty.