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

We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.

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

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

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

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

The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason.