Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.

always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

The worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully funny and touching but not very gay...I don't see the point of sad parties, do you? And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

Chickens are cheerless birds, I advise you to keep geese which can be taught to follow like dogs, one needs all the companionship one can get in these days.

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?