Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.

There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.

Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.

You've been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-'fess up! With your great experience, don't you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes, so that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne'er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!

His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.