It is possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly bent over at all.

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

Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any.

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.

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

Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.