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

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.

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

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.

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

Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.

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