Those Of Our Writers Who Have Possessed

The American Mind, Unlike The English, Is Not Formed By Books, But, As Carl Sandburg Once Said To Me, By Newspapers And The Bible.

Nothing Is So Soothing To Our Self-esteem As To Find Our Bad Traits In Our Forebears. It Seems To Absolve Us.

Earnest People Are Often People Who Habitually Look On The Serious Side Of Things That Have No Serious Side.

Nothing Is Sadder Than The Consequences Of Having Worldly Standards Without Worldly Means.

How Delightful Is The Company Of Generous People, Who Overlook Trifles And Keep Their Minds Instinctively Fixed On Whatever Is Good And Positive In The World About Them. People Of Small Caliber Are Always Carping. They Are Bent On Showing Their Own Superiority, Their Knowledge Or Prowess Or Good Breeding. But Magnanimous People Have No Vanity, They Have No Jealousy, And They Feed On The True And The Solid Wherever They Find It. And What Is More, They Find It Everywhere.