Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all.

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

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.

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

On any morning these days whole segments of the population wake up to find themselves famous, while, to keep matters shipshape, whole contingents of celebrities wake up to find themselves forgotten.

Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.

One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.