How close beneath the surface, even in the happiest family, is the chronic grievance! I sometimes think that tinderboxes are inert and powder kegs mere talcum compared to the explosive possibilities in the most commoplace domestic situation.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.

people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.