The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

The comic book is the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future.

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.