Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.

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

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

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.

Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.

Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.

It is impossible to betray another man's child - for whatever reason - without also betraying one's own. To do less than justice to another man's child, no matter who that man is, is to impair by that much the chances one's own children have for a life of meaning and purpose.