The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.

Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.