In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Be truthful... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards.

Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain.

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

The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist.

America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future. Instead, he has written his past.

A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.