[John Foster Dulles] invented Brinkmanship, the most popular game since Monopoly.

Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.

[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.

In such novels as This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald depicts the spirit of the hour which is usually about 4 a.m. His suave young men, always commuting between Princeton and The Plaza in Stutz Bearcats never sat still for long. It was too uncomfortable, with a large flask in the hip pocket.

There is some consolation in the fact that, even though your dreams don't come true, neither do your nightmares.

Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.