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

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.

To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.

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

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.

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