Harlotry, wine, and new wine enslave the heart.

A careerist is a square-filler, a time-server. His talents and imagination have been circumscribed to perform managerial duties.

[…] it seems to show that the trend of mechanical thought is toward simplicity of design rather than complexity, and that the sober second thought of the power user has rather discredited the profits to be made by saving the “vigintillionth” of a pound of coal per horse power per hour by an outlay of several thousand dollars.

I don't think bezazz was the particular specialty of my mother … That's right cement and gravel, Chicago. Nice girl I'm told … but more in the line of barns than bezazz. Of course I never really knew her.