Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.

Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.

My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.

When one teaches, two learn.

Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an individual could escape bondage to his bowels. But simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it "good." He wished that government would wander off and get lost! (96)

It takes two to create a heaven, but hell can be accomplished by one.