People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility.

Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.

I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen.

If you talked or laughed in church, told lies, had impure thoughts or conversations, you were bad; if you obeyed your parents or guardians, went to confession and communion regularly, said prayers for the dead, you were good.