the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.

The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.

A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions

To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.

You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.