Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.

He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.

Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just as math is the key -- and we will survive or founder, depending on how well the librarians do their jobs. Librarians didn't look glamorous to me but maybe Dad had hit on a not very obvious truth.

'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence.

To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back...

Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.