Sydney J. Harris

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

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

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

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.