I answered my father's demands for sympathy with silence.

A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious.

Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics.

Reading civilized the inner life.

Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.

Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.

I feel affluent or not according to what part of town I am in.