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.

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

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

In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.

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.

Example is better than precept.

I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12" x 8" black suède purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not come back looking baffled and saying he couldn't find it.