Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.

Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.

General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.

Oh, I am all for singing. If I had had children I should have hounded them into choirs & choral societies, and if they weren't good enough for that, I would have sent them out, to sing in the streets.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

Children driven good are apt to be driven mad.

My grandmother was unsurpassable at sitting. She would sit on tombstones, glaciers, small hard benches with ants crawling over them, fragments of public monuments, other people's wheelbarrows, and when one returned one could be sure of finding her there, conversing affably with the owner of the wheelbarrow.