Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.

It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person - beguiled, enchanted.

Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.

Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.

The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities.