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

Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical faith in its non-mystical methods; above all-which perhaps most explains the expert's sovereignty-of external verities; of traffic-cop morality and rabbit-test truth.

Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near nausea, much of it induced by trifles, which used to belong to people who were at once ill-adjusted and over-civilized?

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

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.

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

A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.