A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness.

The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we "can't bear to throw away.