I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise my hand.