Sydney J. Harris

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

The town of St. Charles near St. Louis was founded by a trapper named Blanchette. There is a section that's called Frenchtown on historical markers.