Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near nausea, much of it induced by trifles, which used to belong to people who were at once ill-adjusted and over-civilized?

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

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

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

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

We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.

Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.