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

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

In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire.

One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic air, a much more bracing rivalry.

Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.