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

A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.

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.

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

Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment; and perhaps just such a goal has served as maladjustment's weapon.

With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.