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

Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.

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 would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.

Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.

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

A lady getting a missing belt back from the cleaner couldn't have been more surprised and pleased.