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

What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.

The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.

The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each of us is a mess of unruly, primitive impulses, and these can sometimes, under the strenuous self-discipline and dedication of art, result in notable creativity.

I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.

Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns.

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.