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.

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

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.

Prig and philistine, Ph.D. and C.P.A., despot of English 218c and big shot of the Kiwanis Club-how much, at bottom, they both hate Art, and how hard it is to know which of them hates it the more.

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

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.

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.