The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person leaves vivid memories; one spent with interesting people has merely a sort of bouquet.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

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

In art, there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.

It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never set eyes on, while continuing to boast that they could live somewhere for twenty years without so much as exchanging pleasantries with their neighbors across the hall.

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

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.