Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen by the naked eye.

The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot be bought.