We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.

Courtesy is fine and heaven knows we need more and more of it in a rude and frenetic world, but mechanized courtesy is as pallid as Pablum ... in fact, it isn't even courtesy.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

... I have always fallen for ads. The sweetheart of J. Walter Thompson, I have a peasant-like belief in whatever miracle they profess to effect.

We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.

There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.

All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane.