Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Do you see any majority, anywhere, in this imperfect and irreligious world, admitting that the minority is precious? That any minority is precious?

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

You can bear anything if it is not your fault.

The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal.

The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not.

... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he guarantees you nothing but amusement. He does not guarantee you any of the little amenities by which society has assured itself that, if it must go to sleep, it will at least sleep in a comfortable chair.