Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

The New York voice reflects its diversity, its foreignness, and, inevitably, the sense of superiority New Yorkers feel or come to feel. It says, without saying, We Know.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.