Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.

... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.

In moments of despair, we look on ourselves lead-enly as objects; we see ourselves, our lives, as someone else might see them and may even be driven to kill ourselves if the separation, the "knowledge," seems sufficiently final.

The dictator is also the scapegoat; in assuming absolute authority, he assumes absolute guilt; and the oppressed masses, groaning under the yoke, know themselves to be innocent as lambs, while they pray hypocritically for deliverance.

Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.

An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.

The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.