Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

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.

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes.... TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium.

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

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.

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