In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

There is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who will believe it.

Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.

Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.

The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the devilish in it-that it fits its proprietor tightly yet ever so loosely, as his skin fits him. It is, in fact, quite as seriously an integral part of him as that skin is. . . . In brief, a style is always the outward and visible symbol of a man, and cannot be anything else.

In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.