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

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

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

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.