The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.