On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

You," Said Dr. Yavitch, "are a middle-road liberal, and you haven't the slightest idea what you want. I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want -- and what I want now is a drink.

If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows, it is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs. To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.

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

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

In everything was the spirit of children's play - not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.

A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.