A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

To be simple is the best thing in the world.

The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many of the rich took to scepticism exactly as the poor took to drink; because it was a way out.

Adventure is the champagne of life.

You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.

The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.