This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.

Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.

Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

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.

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.

the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.