Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.

The position of children as a group, in a commercial society, is not wholly advantageous. A commercial society urges its citizens to be responsible for things, but not for people. It is the unquestioned assumption of a mercantile culture that things need and deserve attention, but that people can take care of themselves.

Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.

it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.

What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.

in the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is now exerting its very considerable influence to get them to consume.