The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you.

President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.

Nevertheless, the book gave Jack a feeling he had never had before, that the past was like a story, in which one thing led to another, and the world was not a boundless mystery, but a finite thing that could be comprehended.

Knotty theological questions are the least worrying of problems to me. Why? Because they will be resolved in the hereafter, and meanwhile they can be safely shelved.

Hunger is the best seasoning.

I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.

What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.