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

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

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.

Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

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.