Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly urbane culture. Out of the cave, the tribal teepee, the pueblo, the community fortress, man emerged to build himself a house of his own with a shelter in it for himself and his diversions. Every age has seen it so. The poor might have to huddle together in cities for need's sake, and the frontiersman cling to his neighbors for the sake of protection. But in each civilization, as it advanced, those who could afford it chose the luxury of a withdrawing-place.

Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion.

Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.