E. B. White

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. ”

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind. ”

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad. ”

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. ”

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it. ”

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. ”

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance. ”

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19. ”

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

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy. ”