... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season.

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.

The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and his sister's friends can't or won't. But the youth who marries her, expecting that all her departures from convention will be as agile or as delightful to him as that, is still the classic example of folly.

What passes for an original opinion is, generally, merely an original phrase. Old lamps for new - yes; but it is always the same oil in the lamp.