E. B. White

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more…

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war…

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one…

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a…

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today…

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the…

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a…

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar…

Be obscure clearly…

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men…

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car…

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year…

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies…

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel…

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has…