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

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

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.

From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians. But unless the humanist tradition itself in some form survives, there can really be no civilization at all.

One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.

He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.

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