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.

For young people today things move so fast there is no problem of adjustment. Before you can adjust to A, B has appeared leading C by the hand, and with D in the distance.

It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.

Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.

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

One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.