No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.
If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.
orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.
The final result of too much routine is death in life.
Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.
In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.