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

The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.

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

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

The technique of winning is so shoddy, the terms of winning are so ignoble, the tenure of winning is so brief; and the specter of the has-been-a shameful rather than a pitiable sight today-brings a sudden chill even to our sunlit moments.

Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it is the great delusion of intellectuals to suppose that all previous ages were less sick.