From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.

it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.

Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.

... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is another story, that of underpaid Government clerks, men and women holding desperately to work that some political pull may at any moment take from them. A city of men in office and clutching that office, and a city of struggle which the country never suspects.

There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.

I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.