“No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation”

“Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past.”

“Odd, said Miss Pettigrew conversationally, 'the undermining effect of flowers on a woman's common sense.”

“Ghosts are common to the life of any child:mine just happened to come to dinner more often than most”

“Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.”

“I admit at the beginning that 'popular religion,' 'demotic religion,' the pieties of the common folk, tends to sink to the lowest common denominator, be it in syncretizing saints with old, half-forgotten pagan godlings, or in preferring the nasal whine and the revivalist shoutin' to solid sense and learning, regarding intellect as positively inimical to the workings of the Holy Ghost. But it is in American religious life, especially Protestant American religious life, that things bottom out completely.”