Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be considered a good guy.

Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one may not inquire about.