She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians. But unless the humanist tradition itself in some form survives, there can really be no civilization at all.

The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.