the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.

One of the less dismaying aspects of race relations in the United States is that their improvement is not a matter of a few people having a great deal of courage. It is a matter of a great many people having just a little courage.

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

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.

Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.