The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

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.

I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.

Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.

Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.

Our Republic is not a pastoral, not a military, not an agricultural, not a nomadic, not a clerical, but a business civilization. Nor is there anything random, casual or accidental about the United States as a business society. It is thoroughly well integrated - organized from top to bottom for the maximum efficiency of commerce and industry, for the maximum efficiency of making money.