In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.

American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.

... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.

being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.