Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.

Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.