I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.

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.

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

In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.

Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.

the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock.

The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.