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

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.

Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down, in an effort to make it palatable, in an effort to make it pay.

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.

Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent.

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.