Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.

I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Divorces are made in heaven.

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

Son, in war times it is not safe to think unless one travels with the mob.

Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans - a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made - as it was made by Stalin when he killed pesants for industrial progress in the Soviet Union, as it was made by Churchill explaining the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, and Truman explaining Hiroshima. But how can the judgement be made if the benefits and losses cannot be balanced because the losses are either unmentioned or mentioned quickly?

The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.