Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.

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?

For young people today things move so fast there is no problem of adjustment. Before you can adjust to A, B has appeared leading C by the hand, and with D in the distance.

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

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

Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.