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

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

Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark naked.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

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.

The essence of the expert is that his field shall be very special and narrow: one of the ways in which he inspires confidence is to rigidly limit himself to the little toe; he would scarcely venture an off-the-record opinion on an infected little finger.

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