The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother.

A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.

To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.

I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man without weaknesses. He is not to be trusted. He is apt to be always sober and he cannot make a single mistake. His habits are likely to be regular, his existence more mechanical and his head always maintains its supremacy over his heart. Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings.