There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary.

The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

You can bear anything if it is not your fault.

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...

Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.

Mythology was littered with people who meddled in the affairs of elves and fairies and were never again heard from.

If you don't accept failure as a possibility you don't set high goals you don't branch out you don't try - you don't take the risk.

It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

Our ancestors have travelled the iron age; the golden is before us.

I really love country music, just this idea of three chords and the truth.

Making my family laugh when I was little - it became an addiction. It was a kind of survival.

He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.