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

if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.

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

The past is discredited because it is not modern. Not to be modern is the great sin. So, perhaps, it is. But every one has, in his day, been modern. And surely even modernity is a poor thing beside immortality. Since we must all die, is it not perhaps better to be a dead lion than a living dog?

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

When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.

There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.