Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

If the world ends, I'll just head on down to Kentucky because they're always 20 years behind.

It is a shameful thing to insult a child.

All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best.

when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.

We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise