“As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.”

“Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.”

“Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.”

“Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.”

“The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.”

“...I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding-school, where we are for...”

“He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of ho...”

“The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. Three hundred sixty-five days late...”