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

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.

Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.

The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

Many people feel "guilty" about things they shouldn't feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.