Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that everybody tries to do just this. What else is gossip?

No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.

help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.

one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty.