the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock.

the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.

Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any.

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

I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.

The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity makes you feel that now the thing is in good hands.

the American family is failing in its job of turning out stable human beings. ... It is failing because Americans do not dare to cultivate in themselves those characteristics which would make family life creative and rewarding. To do so, would ruin them financially.