The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.

When we have "second thoughts" about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.

Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.

Norbert Blei is a writer the way people used to be troubadours and minstrels, celebrating what he has seen and heart and felt in a deceptively simple style reminiscent of the early Sherwood Anderson. . . . Like Anderson, he is a lover, and his affection invests his writing with a singular charm.

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.