It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender.

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.

Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and at times noisy) desperation, understanding nothing but the fact that there is a hole inside them and that however much food and drink they pour into it, however many motorcars and television sets they stuff it with, however many well-balanced children and loyal friends they parade around the edges of it. . . it aches!

No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

Whom the mad would destroy, first they make gods.

The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.