The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the isolation of all other forms of composition; for most good talkers, when they have run down, are miserable; they know that they have betrayed themselves, that they have taken material which should have a life of its own, to dispense it in noises upon the air.

Sheep with a nasty side.

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals

Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.