A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach and four ringing jingle bells all the way, and thrill at the crystallization of a truth wrung out from a bloody dialogue - which, however, may warm only you and your muse, while the smiling paralogist has in the meantime made votes by the tens of thousands.

France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers.

Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.

Earlier this month the State Department gave the umpteenth performance of its popular play, Please Tread on Me, with Ceylon as guest star, and the usual cast.

Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.

Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem.

[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone.