journalist
, novelist, essayist and poet
. He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures.
Christopher Morley was born in Haverford, Pennsylvania
. His father, Frank Morley
, was a mathematics professor at Haverford College
; his mother, Lilian Janet Bird, was a poet and musician who provided Christopher with much of his later love for literature and poetry.
In 1900 the family moved to Baltimore, Maryland.
It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.
Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.
The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.
Philadelphia was the first city to foresee the advantages of a Federal constitution and oatmeal as a breakfast food.
Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.