Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.

It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.