The Best Prose Is Written

Belated Maternity Has Had Its Compensations; Small Children Have A Habit Of Conferring Persistent Youth Upon Their Parents, And By Their Eager Vitality Postpone The Unenterprising Cautions And Timidities Of Middle Age.

I Can Think Of Few Important Movements For Reform In Which Success Was Won By Any Method Other Than That Of An Energetic Minority Presenting The Indifferent Majority With A Fait Accompli, Which Was Then Accepted.

Politics Are Usually The Executive Expression Of Human Immaturity.

However Deep Our Devotion May Be To Parents Or To Children, It Is Our Contemporaries Alone With Whom Understanding Is Instinctive And Entire.

Babies Are A Nuisance, Of Course. But So Does Everything Seem To Be That Is Worth While – Husbands And Books And Committees And Being Loved And Everything. We Have To Choose Between Barren Ease And Rich Unrest – Or Rather, One Does Not Choose.