Old money is fully as moronic as new money but it has inherited an appearance of cultivation.

Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state.

You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable.

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.

The happy ending is our national belief.